What’s new with MagCloud, the revolutionary print-on-demand magazine service.

MagCloud users deserve larger form factor products and we are happy to offer not just one but seven large product types.

Tabloid Product Family

At 11″ x 14″ trim size Small Tabloid is smaller than a standard newspaper but larger than our Standard letter-size product. Our Large Tabloid product has a 17″ x 11″ trim size offering more room for images and content. All Tabloid products are published on premium cover stock, have Wire-O Binding, and are ideal for large format portfolios, custom calendars, manuals and more.

Small Tabloid: 11″ x 14″ and 14″ x 11″ trim size options

Large Tabloid: 17″ x 11″ trim size

$0.36 per page with full color printing

8 to 90 pages in length in multiples of 2

$2.00 per copy for durable Wire-O Binding

Poster Product Family

Our full-color, double-sided Poster are printed on premium cover stock and come standard with UV coating giving them an extra sheen and making them more durable. Posters are ideal for promotions and special event keepsakes such as gallery exhibits, music festivals and fundraisers.

Available in 12″ x 18″ or 18″ x 12″ trim sizes

Full-color professional printing on 80# premium cover stock paper

Standard UV Coating front and back for increased durability

Each individual Poster is only $2 to print ($1.50 for orders of 20 or more).

Large Square

MagCloud is adding to its Square product family by offering a new large form factor Square product. At 12″ x 12″ trim size, this new product is great for one-of-a-kind portfolios, photo books or training material.

Available in 12″ x 12″ trim size

Durable Wire-O Binding

80# premium cover stock

8 to 90 pages in multiples of 2

$0.36 per page with full color printing

$2.00 per copy for Wire-O binding

Standard Landscape

Finally we are also expanding our Standard product line, with the addition of a landscape option. Measuring 11” x 8.5” and also using Wire-O Binding and premium #80 cover stock paper, this new product option is useful for portfolios, magazines, booklets, catalogs and more.

Available in 10.75″ x 8.25″ trim size

Durable Wire-O Binding standard

80# premium cover stock

8 to 90 pages in multiples of 2

$0.20 per page with full color printing

$2.00 per copy for Wire-O Binding

Note: Standard Landscape page and trim size will also be available as a Flyer option.

What do you think of these new products and how do you plan to use them? Let us know in the comments section below.

Would love to see the new sizes with your other binding options instead. But I assume that’s not doable because you can’t run them on a big enough sheet? Wire-o doesn’t seem appropriate for a “publication”. But I could still see using it for something!

I am lovin’ this- the quality and pricing at MagCloud smokes the ‘traditional’ print-on-demand merchandise firms so I will be switching all my wall calendars over now that MC has the larger size and (most importantly) wire-o binding.

My enthusiasm dissipated when I confirmed that most of the Wire-O sizes are bound on the short side…. totally useless for industry-standard wall calendars. I hope that changes so I can move my calendar biz here.

Thank you for the feedback. You probably noticed that our Small Tabloid product can be bound on the long side and of course there is our Large Square product. We will definitely take your feedback into consideration for future product enhancements.

Thanks!

Stephen Gordon20 Jul 2012 / 10:29 AM

I 100% agree with Brian. Please add option of wire binding on long side of standard size publications. This would be more in line with “flip chart” type products which I offer.

Another request for adding the binding on the long side for calendars. I’m sure the 12×12 and 14×11 sizes work great, but that creates hassles with pricing and shipping (not mention converting images over for the larger sizes). Would love to see this work with the standard size!

Barry Goyette11 Jul 2012 / 2:47 PM

I think perfect binding would be the way to go with these products. Wire-o…tired-o…otherwise I think it’s great magcloud is doing larger products. I still think an uncoated paper would be a great addition to the MC portfolio. These printers do such an awesome job on uncoated stock.

I’ve had several printing companies beg for my business, for over 6 months now. And I continue to refuse. MagCloud continues to impress and put quality into every job, know matter the size, and as long as that continues you’ve got a loyal client.
K*Chele Magazine

At this point we have set sizes that we can trim to, so no, we are not able to trim to your 9.125″ x 11″ size. With that said, we do offer an automatic resizing function for PDFs that are within 10% of one of our trim sizes, so you might try uploading your PDF to see if it can be automatically resized by our system to our 8.25″ x 10.75″ trim size. Depending on the dimensions of your untrimmed PDF, it sounds like you might be just inside the 10% limit.

You could get a lot more business if you offered perfect binding on these new larger sizes. FYI, my other printer for larger [art] paperbacks, EditionOne in Berkeley, informed me today that they will no longer offer their larger format paperbacks because they have issues with the covers. Here’s a chance to pick up that business.

Like many of the other comments here, I too would love to see you offer Perfect Binding along with your new Wire-O options. This should certainly be possible with the new HP Indigos which print on sheets large enough to do a full cover. As many others have said, Wire-O is great for calendars, manuals, menus and the like — but it’s not at all appropriate for magazines or books where the quality difference between saddle-stitch and perfect bound makes a noticeable and qualitative difference. So…are you planning to offer perfect binding in these larger formats sometime soon?

Being a long-time MagCloud publisher, I’m really stoked with the new larger sizes! But…

Unfortunately, wire-o binding would put a “I just came from the local copy shop” feeling on my photo journal publications. I could go with saddle-stitch and perfect binding, but wire-o is a deal killer for me. Looking forward to seeing more binding options!

Offering Perfect and Saddle Stitch Binding for large format products requires larger paper sizes. This is definitely on our radar for the new HP Indigo presses which have been announced but are not yet in production.

I would like to know if I can keep accurate track of who purchase from a specific organization. example: Jane from the Church of Christ! John from the Church of God! Is there anywhere they can specifically state the organization they are from while shipping to there own address?

There is a Company field so either via the MagCloud address book or when you are entering the address to ship to just include the business or organization in the Company Name field and that will be included on the shipping order.

If you have additional questions don’t hesitate to contact our support team (support@magcloud.com).

Why is 8×8 and 12×12 limited to wired binding? I want to start using magcloud for magazine-like pieces, but I cannot stand wire binding. This is the first I learned about Lr4 limits to size formats too! Bummer.

The Small Square product (8 x 8) is available in Saddle Stitch or Perfect Binding depending on your page count. Our Large Square product (12 x 12) is currently only available with Wire-O Binding. As new printing presses become available we hope to offer different binding options for the large form factor products.

Yes a poster is two pages (front and back). You can choose to print on the back or leave it blank. Yes we have a small (6mm square) barcode on the back side right corner. The barcode is required so we can track your order throughout the print process.

I absolutely love the way that my 11 x 14 calendars are coming out! My clients are pleased as well. However two small things would make them perfect.
1. It has already been mentioned, but an option for a hole for wall hanging would be much appreciated.
2. Might it be possible as well to have an option to rotate the online preview 90 degrees so calendar projects could be viewed normally? Several potential customers have complained about being forced to view them sideways.

I’d like to add my voice to those who have already raised this issue: I am a photographer and would like to use your new products sizes for larger portfolio and leave-behind pieces. However, the spiral binding is a deal-breaker. Too much cheap local copy shop associations! Please bring us other binding options for these sizes!

If you have no plans of adding perfect or saddle stitched binding to the new larger sizes, would it be feasible to add single sheets (no binding) so that we could have the option of providing our own binding options?

Hi John, absolutely! Magcloud is now a part of the Blurb family. We’ll be updating the blog more soon so stay tuned for some great new posts.
Currently the large Tabloid format can only be made with the Wire-O spiral binding.
I’d love to hear what you’re planning on creating in the Tabloid format and why the perfect binding would be preferable.